"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make……" — William Ellery Channing
"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."
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53 Quotes by William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing has 53 quotes on this site.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual…
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence,…
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the…
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for…
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of…
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to…
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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More Almost Everything Quotes
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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts…
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt,…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be…
— John W. Gardner
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Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
— Regina Brett
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The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his…
— Frank Macfarlane Burnet
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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
— Warren Buffett
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A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw…
— William Stafford
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Remember that almost everything looks better after a good night's sleep.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
— Quintilian
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Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance…
— Wayne Dyer
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